... which basically consisted of "His present majesty King George is a big pee-pee head."Here's the famous anti-slavery passage: "he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s (sic) most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce."
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Jefferson's "original Rough draught" of Declaration of Independence
Jefferson's "original Rough draught" of the Declaration of Independence ...
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